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Donnie Darko - SPOILERS
Ellemeno:
I was reading this thread, when it suddenly occurred to me that I was reading more about the plot than I wanted to, before seeing the film. I'm going to do two things - A. Put the word SPOILERS in the subject heading with my moderator Powers. B. Finally rent the film - if so many of you whose opinions I respect love it so much, I'm in. C. Report back. Three things, I'm gonna do three things.
Mikaela:
--- Quote ---That's me now after one viewing. So many questions, especially about Frank. I doubt if I got anything straight about this movie. Frank was another high school kid who plaid a trick on Donnie, wasn't he? But if so, how did these strange things happen? How is it that Frank has a kind of "shield" around him? I don't get the logic behind all this time-shift-thing.
I know what happens in the end (time-travelling backwards, lying in his bed to change the realitiy/future). But I don't have a clue how.
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After I'd seen Donnie Darko some more times and made up my mind about what I *thought* had happened, and why, I looked around the net for information. Here's a couple of links that comments and explains the DD-verse and all the tricky questions. Whether all of them are true, - I doubt it. Surely we're supposed to interpret it all for ourselves and there aren't definite answers to everything.......
Lots of DD Q&A:
http://www.stainlesssteelrat.net/ddfaq.htm
Salon.com's "everything you were afraid to ask about DD:"
http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/movies/feature/2004/07/23/darko/index.html
--- Quote ---Really, it's such a lovely movie, and everyone with one exception is pitch-perfect in it. The exception being Drew Barrymore. I like the character a lot, but her readings fall flat a couple of times.
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I do agree with that.
OTOH, I think Patrick Swayze is pitch-perfect as that smarmy self-help guy. (I normally run to avoid PS, but here he really delivers the goods!) And I love how Donnie takes him on and challenges him, revealing the hollow stupidity of his self-improvement scheme. Who among us haven't sat through just that kind of inane lecture and wished we could do what Donnie does? Go DD! :-*
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on August 09, 2006, 02:37:51 pm ---I was reading this thread, when it suddenly occurred to me that I was reading more about the plot than I wanted to, before seeing the film. I'm going to do two things - A. Put the word SPOILERS in the subject heading with my moderator Powers. B. Finally rent the film - if so many of you whose opinions I respect love it so much, I'm in. C. Report back. Three things, I'm gonna do three things.
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Our chief weapons are two: ...
;)
Sorry about the spoilers, y'all. Thanks for rectifying that potential for us with your moderator Powers, Elle. And I will wait on pins and needles to hear what you think of it.
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on August 09, 2006, 02:37:51 pm ---I was reading this thread, when it suddenly occurred to me that I was reading more about the plot than I wanted to, before seeing the film. I'm going to do two things - A. Put the word SPOILERS in the subject heading with my moderator Powers. B. Finally rent the film - if so many of you whose opinions I respect love it so much, I'm in. C. Report back. Three things, I'm gonna do three things.
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Aww, I'm so sorry. It was me who spoiled it :( I apologize for that.
Go and see it. It's worth it. And don't read more on this thread and especially from my post, there may be more spoilers (don't know yet).
Edit: There ARE definately spoilers in my post. So stop reading when you haven't seen the movie.
***From here possible SPOILERS***
--- Quote from: Mikaela on August 09, 2006, 02:58:41 pm ---After I'd seen Donnie Darko some more times and made up my mind about what I *thought* had happened, and why, I looked around the net for information. Here's a couple of links that comments and explains the DD-verse and all the tricky questions. Whether all of them are true, - I doubt it. Surely we're supposed to interpret it all for ourselves and there aren't definite answers to everything.......
Lots of DD Q&A:
http://www.stainlesssteelrat.net/ddfaq.htm
Salon.com's "everything you were afraid to ask about DD:"
http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/movies/feature/2004/07/23/darko/index.html
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Thank you, Mikaela, for these links. I checked out the FAQs of the first link and will look at the other one tomorrow.
Gosh! There are some people out there who try to analize this movie really, really seriously. Seems somehow freaky to me. But maybe those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones ::)
I've another idea: the logic behind this movie and the whole time-travel-thing is not important at all, because it is non-existent. It's all in Donnies schizophrenic mind. No Bunny except for the evening of the party, when Frank disguises as Bunny. No strange bubbles that grow out of people's bodies, no "hole" (or whatever) in time and in the sky, and so on.
Nothing really happens, it's just the weird illusions of a schizophrenic mind. Donnie hallucinates for a while, then dies because the engine hits his bed. End of story.
I don't believe this option myself, but will keep it in mind at my next viewing.
delalluvia:
Love this movie. My sister hated it because it made no sense to her.
I found it profound. Incredibly so. So much so, I still haven't figured it out and don't think I ever will. I know there's a lot of websites out there about it, lots of commentary on the DVD from the director, but I also like how you can just come up with your own theories and it still fit.
The 'Why are you wearing that stupid bunny suit' exchange was indeed chilling.
The familial scenes were incredibly realistic. I very much enjoyed the trampoline scenes. A scene of something so mundane really struck a chord. Unlike some teenager movies, teens aren't always hanging with their friends or on the cell or having some sort of chasing girls action with the buds. Sometimes, real teens are home with their families, jumping on the trampoline with their little sister in the back yard on a sunny day.
Jake was perfection in this movie. It was like the role was written for him. I can see no one else in the role. Donnie was complex and troubled and half-mad and I loved his character. He was by turns extremely compassionate and cruel (see the deleted scene about 'Watership Down'), wise and confused. A perfect teenager.
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